Politics and Other Childish Behavior

There has been some talk of Newt Gingrich is crawling out from underneath the rock we smashed on him many many years back.   Don’t be fooled the talk is coming from one solo source, Newt himself and only Newt, which to be honest is really really pathetic. 

See Newt’s is so needy to be worshiped and so blind to the fact that no one with any active brain cells, right or left, would ever vote for his self absorbed ass.  He is unable to restrain himself from weaseling himself into the conversation. 

 His desperate attempt to generate self buzz only draws into focus “Newt, you are no Fred Thompson.”

Back in May, all Thompson had to say when asked “are you considering running for president” was “I’m thinking about it.” and people started clearing off kitchen tables in preparation of stuffing envelopes,  senators, congressmen, ex-girlfriends, even his ex-wife as well as others started offering to help get this tall man from Lawrenceburg, Tennessee elected.  Other people such as myself who have been sitting quietly with a brown paper bag over our heads ashamed to admit we’re Republicans cause our party was hijacked by people like Newt and the wannabe cowboy W.  Tore off our bags, grabbed a Sharpie and scribbled VOTE FOR FRED!!!!! on that bag and we started blogging.  The buzz  was sudden and came from the heart of the people.

See Newt says he’s “above the process” of getting elected, he needs to prove to America, that we can’t make it without him and we must come begging to be saved.  Fred is willing to wade into the shark infested waters cause he knows Americans can do it and he wants to help.

When Fred Thompson hints “I may run.” - people sighed happily  ”OH  GOD YES!!!”

Newt says (repeatedly to anyone who’ll listen) I will run…if I see you need me to save you from yourselves, and people scream “OH GOD NO!!!!!!”

But poor Newt deludes himself in thinking that we are rolling that boulder towards him for a corner stone to to construct an alter to worship him at, he can’t see we realized  we need a BIGGER ROCK!!!!!!!!!

Memmie

I am a fan of wrestling, and one of the tried and true story lines is where the hero (Face) is in a tag match, and he is getting the snot kicked out him by one or more of the Heels in the other corner using highly illegal means. BUT because his partner is trying to help-out our hapless hero,  the not so bright ref is distracted and our hero continues to get pummeled.  I always wanted our hero to yell out “FOR GOD SAKE STOP HELPING ME!!!!!!!”

That leads me to this category  “Handlers and Tag Team Partners.”  In these political times everyone has a mouth piece who is very well paid to spin what ever offense or miss their masters do into something good and holy or minimum not a capital crime. 

From time to time I will visit these quotes. I have heard or read by these Handlers and Tag Team Partners and wonder if they ever get calls from the candidates who are screaming “FOR GOD SAKE STOP HELPING ME!!!!!!!”

In this corner: Former President Clinton’s lawyer from the Paula Jones days, who was on Hardball yesterday.  Everyone was in a twitter over the Libby commute, and how Libby was evil for lying to the special prosecutor. The twitter from the right said well Clinton admitted lying under oath.   Clinton’s side said that Clinton admitting lying under oath “only in a civil case.” 

And the Tag Team Partners, in a Winner Takes All hair match:  Everyone is covering the metro sexual John Edwards hair regiment.  First of all since the Kennedy/Nixon debate preening matters, so I really don’t care about his haircut.  Remember I’m a Fred Head and there are 99 articles on Fred Thompson’s style (Honestly hair is not a real issue with Freddy), but back to my point.  In-defence for a $400 dollar hair cut then a $1250 dollar cut (which is more than my mortgage payment) Edwards mouth piece countered with the following today.

” ‘Breaking news — John Edwards got some expensive haircuts and probably didn’t pay enough attention to the bills,’ said spokeswoman Colleen Murray.

I wonder, do I really want someone handling the nation’s purse strings who “probably didn’t pay enough attention to the bills.”? Especially when it’s the tax payer’s money in that purse.

Memmie

Flipping the channels from one childish TV personality to another, I wonder if any of them Rightfields  or  McLefties in media truly understand the extent of the damage they are doing to the foundation of American’s beliefs.  They put on blinders in their pursuit of the Almighty Ratings, feeling that they ARE the news, and that if they ”win”, they will continue to be allowed to continue to use their slash-and-burn tactics on their lustfull treck for Nielson ratings. Naturally, both sides are hiding behind the 1st Amendment, while saying that the other side “can’t”.

But let us do a reality check.  If either side wins outright - the Rightist or the Leftist - We all lose because the truth always lies somewhere in the middle. 

They all pull out dulling poles to prove their points and show how low the polls are for the President (The McLefties) or the Congress (The Rightfields). 

Has anyone done a poll on what we think of the press?  They will argue that their ratings or how many papers they sell are their polls.  But honestly, face it, millions sat and watched that train wreck do-it-yourself porn actress “Business Woman” look up her favorite Bible passage, and even with it written down on a note pad under her nose couldn’t come up with the 23rd psalm. (Future reference - quote the 23rd it’s the fail safe prayer for the scary times), and weekly millions of the Star and Enquirer out sell the Leftist Grey lady and rightist Review. 

Each side shouts with their chosen amendment in their clinched fists ”This is not what the Founders meant” as they are making their self serving case for curtailing their least favorite amendment guaranteed freedom,  with the press happily cheering them on because it plays well on the 24 hour news channel. 

What the founders meant, people, is that the Bill of Rights is a package deal.  Interconnected and interdependent.  No part greater than the sum.  Much like the people they wrote them for, equally interconnected and interdependent, a matched  set.  But with this great gift of the Bill of Rights comes responsibilities.  And that is the point of this rant.  We all need to accept the responsibility for our own actions now before we are wondering where that mighty gift from the founders went (All of it) like the bright loving child who sees that it’s not fully appreciated and too afraid to speak up to tell them that they all are dividing the house to the point of collapse, cause the Rightfields are loading their shot guns and the McLefties are screaming for lawyers.  Meanwhile the child is under the rubble the collapse.  But that’s OK - a building collapse especially with fatalities always plays well on CNN and Fox especially on spit screen.

Memmie

With father’s day coming up this weekend I have been thinking about my Father.

When I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s - I was taught to believe in this country and most importantly in the character of a person and their actions.  My measuring stick?  My parents - and mostly my father, a staunch republican.  It’s also how I follow and judge politics today. 

I recall him driving around one election day in a brown station wagon with a bull horn urging people to get out and vote.  I can’t remember who for - I believe it was against McGovern.  Sadly He never did it again after Watergate and the Nixon mess.  But he still never missed voting in an election. 

Like most little kids - I would  go with my mom and dad to the local school on election day.  He would bring me into the voting machine, close the curtain, lift me on to a chair and explain what he was doing.  I still remember being told not to ever pull the party lever. (yes they used to have a party lever) But he didn’t believe one should follow like sheep.   I asked him how to choose.  He said “Sometimes it comes down to a feeling or just them acting like an adult.” 

 Now I don’t know if my dad was just being a good dad cause honestly I believe he always voted republican.  Although more than a few times I remember my mother joking “come on Ed, lets go cancel each others vote out”

On my 18th birthday (1980) took me down to the City Hall so I could  register to vote in the up coming presidential election - He didn’t tell me I had to be a republican “I don’t care what you sign up for, but you must pick one or the other.  Cause independents don’t get a say in primaries and after that it’s to late.” 

He then stepped out in the hall leaving me to regester to vote. I was all grown up that day.    

I remember politics being discussed at our kitchen table over coffee - but never heated, always civil always like adults. 

Which leads me to what I see now and wonder what he would think.  Nancy Pelosi making bug eyes in to the cameras saying ” there’s a new congress in town.” then her going over to weird world to undercut the president, state department and country during a time of war.  Her damn near drooling as she talked about being 3rd from the oval office and how much power she had now. 

“just them acting like an adult.”  or the day former VP Gore waddled up on the shores of the Senate doing his best MacArthur to tell us we’re all going to die in an SUV driven fire ball and we common foke were basically bad stupid people for asking for more well rounded information or better yet questioning him.  Silly us we keep forgetting he invented the Internet, but even VP Yoda was up staged by some woman democratic  senator waving a gavel in the face of another republican senator the words were something like “there were consequences for losing the last election.”  But honestly all I was seeing and hearing was a 4 year old going “Nana nana we won nana nana”

“just them acting like an adult.”  but just when I thought it couldn’t get more preschool there was Senator Reid the head of the senate quoting Dr. Seuss ON THE SENATE FLOOR!. 

Now before you think I’m dem bashing and lord know that is really really easy as of late, Honestly I think  President Bush is some spoiled little cowboy wanna be brat. Look mommie I’m a cowboy , look mommie I’m a jet pilot,  look mommie I’m president, Jebs not a cowboy, or jet pilot or president.  Well W is NOT a republican and only god know what festers in that soul of his.  But now, I see he has a congress of his intellectual and maturity equals. 

So now the country is being run right into the ground with few exceptions by 4 year olds both democrate and republicans.

So as I said before it makes me wonder what would my father think?  I know what I think - I thank god I had the father I did.

Fred Thompson gave an interview:

http://www.hoover.org/multimedia/dfv/7959792.html

I watched Sunday’s and tonight’s debates – then Fred Thompson on H & C.  I’ve come to the dream ticket Fred Thompson and Joe Biden.

Need I say more?

1st I will come clean I’m a Fred Head - I will vote for him barring any great skelaton falling from his closest.  I expect attacks on him, and shot towards his wife.  But the Boston Harald.com chose to let a article to take up cyber space by Margery Eegan -today.  - To put it nicely she has a issue with possible first lady cleavage.  This would have been just a piece of fluff until she equated Mrs. Jeri Kehn-Thompson to a stripper. 

 I sent this letter to her editor - what good that will do

How sad it is for what I believed to be a good up standing news outlet like yours to allow Margery Eagan equate any man’s wife and the mother of his 2 small children to a stripper as she was allowed to - and justified her sad self serving statement by using a photo taken a year ago not last Thursday “Flashed around the country Thursday was yet another full cleavage shot of Fred Thompson’s child wife looking almost as well-endowed as Alex Rodriguez’s stripper/pole-dancer girlfriend.” Even it was last Thursday - Mrs. Kehn-Thompson - a smart informed educated woman, was not wearing anything crude or pornographic.   No woman should have to wear a berka because her husband chooses to run for public office.  (Which he was not at the time that photo was taken a year ago) As for the “Thompson’s child wife” crack, she was 29 - working at a very impressive job.  Earning her own way in this world when they met.  In her 30s when they started to date, 36 when they married 37/8 when their 1st child and 40 when they second child came.    It is to bad that this so called reporter “columnist” of yours is so narrow minded and jealous that this smart - woman has it on the ball enough to see that happiness can be found with a man who is not a afraid of a smart pretty woman.  To bad Margery Eagan isn’t.  Oh by the way 50 years ago - thank god my father who was going on his second marriage in his 40’s wasn’t afraid of little minded people like Margery Eagan, when he married the smart independent woman 13 years his junior.  That woman, I was proud to call my mom.   I that healthy attitude by my parents made me not threatened by other woman’s breasts.  To bad her parents couldn’t have done a better with Ms. Eagan.  You should print an apology for her stripper remark.  But since you let her print it in the first place I won’t hold my breath.  I was also never read your blog or buy your paper.

WHat Eegan didn’t talk about was in this 11 year relationship, Jeri yes ms Eegan with an “i”.  She  has seen him through the death of a child, married him when he was leaving the senate and before he had the law and order gig, and faced the possiablity of being a widow with a small child when he was dignoses with cancer.Maybe Ms Eegan should apologise to her parents instead for wasting their collage money, if that article was the best she can show for it. I never figured I would be blogging - But I figured what the hell if I have to start anywhere this was as good a  place as any. Memmie